Word: royals
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...looking as if he had just been away for the weekend. Trim and fit, the 34-year-old Briton fielded questions with grace and humor and seemed more than ready to resume his private life and even his public duties as a television reporter. Back in Britain at the Royal Air Force base in Lyneham, McCarthy took time out from being examined to deliver a letter from his captors to the U.N. Secretary-General, tootle around the base in a borrowed car and take a spin in a flight simulator. Everywhere he went he waved cheerily...
...painted 14 covers for the magazine. Among the best known are his portrait of Deng Xiaoping, who was our Man of the Year in 1979, and his gatefold showing a cross section of Americans for our 1987 special issue on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. A native of Royal Oak, Mich., Dick attended the University of Michigan and, improbably, began his career working for a company that manufactured paint-by-number sets. After many years as a graphic designer and an art director for major advertising firms, he returned to illustration in 1971, working out of his Connecticut home...
...gray area. Among the most serious charges Western countries have leveled at B.C.C.I. are accusations that it fraudulently concealed huge off-the-books loans to wealthy Middle East investors. But sources in the Persian Gulf note that Arab bankers have traditionally made large loans to the region's royal families and wealthy merchants without demanding the documentation Westerners would require...
...experts also see little wrong in using front men to hide the real movers and shakers behind financial transactions. That could help explain why Middle Eastern investors allowed B.C.C.I. to use them as nominal owners -- or nominees -- when the bank secretly acquired control of Washington's First American Bankshares. Royal family members often use fronts to conceal the fact that they are donning the hats of businessmen...
Even into a royal life a little rain must fall, as the Princess of Wales discovered last week, when she was caught in a downpour during an open-air concert given by Luciano Pavarotti in London's Hyde Park. The occasion, which marked the 30th anniversary of Pavarotti's first major performance, also marked the ninth time in a month that Diana, possibly attempting to squelch growing rumors of marital discord, appeared in public with husband Charles. After huddling under plastic sheeting with a towel over her head during most of the 90-minute program, Diana emerged with dampened hair...